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Brattleboro Area Jewish Community
presents
Israeli Film and Food Festival

Celebrating the vibrancy of the Israeli film industry

Sunday August 19, 2007
Mountain Park Cinema
Route 100, West Dover

Thank you to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for your generous support of this event.

www.hgf.org

Program Book

Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors, volunteers, and attendees for making such a successful event possible. The program book [pdf 5mb] includes recipes—check it out!

More about the festival

from an article about the festival in the Deerfield Valley News [pdf]:

“We didn’t want to do the same thing and Marty was pushing the idea of celebrating the diversity and artistic achievement of Israeli film so we decided to go with it,” said Schuster. “The Mountain Park Cinema worked best to show the films and overall, the altruistic idea is to attract a lot of people and become familiar with what’s coming out of Israel in terms of creative work. The less altruistic is (to raise money) for a building fund for a synagogue in Brattleboro. It’s a fun summer activity; we want to keep it in the valley, bring people in the area, and give them some interesting activity.”

In addition, Cohn is amazed with the response it’s getting and many people outside of the congregation are buying tickets.

“One of the things that’s interesting about that is there are 180 seats in the theater and so far we have sold about 150,” said Cohn. “What’s really interesting about that is about 40% of the seats that we sold were sold to members of our congregation. Which means, flipping it around, that 60% are not members, meaning what we’re doing is we’ve touched on nerves or the interest in the greater Brattleboro area and exposing people to the Israeli film.”